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By mid-2021, the original maintainers of The Trove had stopped direct uploads. The site pivoted to "user contributions," but the damage was done. The server costs for hosting petabytes of PDFs were immense. Ad revenue (from sketchy banner ads) couldn’t cover bandwidth. The site became slow, broken, and littered with dead links. the trove rpg archive 2021
TTRPG publishers, particularly those within the GAMA group, reportedly organized to take down the site due to copyright infringement. A prominent catalyst was a DMCA takedown notice from the creator of the Zweihander : For gamers in economically challenged regions where